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NITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

DANIEL R. KING, OF YORK, AND WILLIAM A. KING, OF COLUMBIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

BRETZEL OR CRACKER SIZING AND SALTING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 393,475, dated November 27, 1888.

Application filed October 18, 1887. Serial No. 252,703. (No model.)

T0 aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, DANIEL It. KING and WILLIAM A. KING, of York and Columbia, in

the counties of York and Lancaster, respectively, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bretzel or Cracker Sizing and Salting Machines; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Our invention relates to improvements in the manner of feeding screens to machines, especially applicable to bretzel and cracker sizing and salting machines.

Our invention consists in the combination, with the receivingtable, of movable guidetracks arranged by its side, with levers connecting said table to said guide'tracks and by which the guide-tracks may be either raised or lowered by depressing said table for the purposes as hereinafter described and claimed.

Our invention will be best understood by reference to the drawings which accompany these specifications, in which similar letters refer to similar parts.

Figure 1 represents a side elevation of our patent bretzel and cracker sizing and salting machine, No. 358,358, February 22, 1887, and the application of our invention to this machine. Fig. 2 represents a plan view of same. Fig. 3 represents a side elevation of our invention, showing a screen resting on the traveling cables. Fig. 4 represents the same view j ust after the screen has been placed in, but just before it has been allowed to rest on the cables. Fig. 5 represents the ratchet-wheel and part of the lever for moving the screens faster at any moment, and Fig. 6 represents a plan view of same.

In Figs. 1 and 2, A represents the sizing device and B the salting device, 0 the traveling cables on which the screens are placed, D the receiving-table on which the screens rest before being placed in the machine and from which they are pushed in.

E is the crank which operates the ratchetwheel before referred to, and F is that wheel.

G represents asystem of levers by which the device is operated. These parts can be best seen in the side view, Figs. 3 and 4, where similar letters refer to similar parts.

HHrepresent two of the supports of the machine to which the device is attached. The lever G is fulcrumed at K on the support H, one end of which lever is connected to the receiving-table D, the other to the guidetracks by means of the braces L. Now these guidetracks consist simply of two parallel pieces with two grooves cut in each for the cables to travel through, and deep enough, so that the cables do not touch them when the tracks are raised, so that the upper edges rise above the level of the cables, when in operation, to support the screens. The receiving-table is bolted to the uprights at a and b, and the two horizontal bars are connected by a small iron rod, 0, which may be either hooked or loosely fitted. The ratchet-wheel, as shown in Fig. 5, is as follows: (1 is a toothed wheel which receives the chain and drives the two cables. This revolves from left to right and carries with it the ratchet-wheel e. The pawls for this ratchet wheel are f and 9, one attached to the larger wheel and kept in contact by the spring h, the other connected by the rod is to the crank, the former holding the wheel while the latter is moved back to catch another hold. It will be easily seen that by a downward movement of the crank the ratchet-wheel will be moved forward and faster than it was moving before, and thus cause the screen-bearing cables, their roller being attached to the same shaft, to move forward faster than the rest of the machine.

The method of operation is as follows: The screen is placed on the receiving-table, and then the foot of the operator is placed on the brace Z,and the whole table pressed down, thus acting on the lever G, which in its turn acts on the guide-tracks M, raising the edges above the level of the cables. The screen is now pushed in on the said tracks back until it strikes the lug m, which prevents it going in too far. When the screen is in position, the operators foot is removed, the receiving-table rises, the guide-tracks fall by their own weight to their normal position, and the screen rests on the cables by which it is carried along. Thus screens can be put in one after the other without stopping the machine; but when the first screen has passed the point H, from which the bretzels or other substance are passing off, there will be a space or at least ajoint between the two screens, and the substance, continuing to come down, would fall either between the screens or on the joint. To obviate this, we have recourse to the ratchet before mentioned. Byaseries ofdownward movements of the crank the cables will be driven much faster than the rest of the machine is going and thus pass over the intermediate space without loss.

Having thus described our invention and its mode of operation, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent A depressible ieceiviiigtable, I), in combination with vertically-movable guide-tracks arranged by the side of said table, levers conneeting said table and said guide-tracks in order that the depression of the former may ele- 2o vate the latter, and cables running in said guide-tracks, the latter being of sufficient depth to support the screens above the level of said cables, when said guide-tracks are thus lifted and the screens passed from said table 25 D upon them, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

in DANIEL R. KING. 7 WILLLAM. A. KING. \Vitnesses:

J. W. STAUFF, O. S. KLTNE. 

